dragonlady7 | the birds are loud

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heh so as i was packing up Friday evening to go to the farm for this week i was texting with my supervisor. “I have a sinus infection,” he wrote. “Bruh you have covid,” I wrote back. “No, I tested negative,” and then like four screens full of justifications why it wasn’t covid, and I was like “u should test again tho bro” and kept doing what I was doing.

When I woke up, figuring on leaving that morning, it was to a text from him at 1am that he did, in fact, have Covid.

I expected him to ask if I had left yet, but he didn’t. I had other shit to do so I kept myself busy for a number of hours, but at the end of the day he still hadn’t said anything. I finally texted him, “so do you actually need anything from me for this week?”

“Oh,” he wrote back. “I’d assumed you’d already left, I was trying to figure out how to cover things without you. If you’re still in town that’d be way easier!”

“Well,” I wrote back, “so the store is closed on Monday,” because it is, that’s a a holiday, “and the really important thing I have to do at the farm is Monday and Tuesday, so if I leave now I can come back Wednesday. Can you find someone to cover a single day?”

“Just go,” he wrote, “I can figure it out,” and I know he was being dramatic and martyr-y about it and wanted me to insist, but I also know they genuinely do need me at the farm, so I just sent back a thumbs-up emoji and left.

Currently it’s 6am and I woke up an hour ago when a bug tried to crawl into my ear but I am currently watching a pair of extremely large wild tom turkeys dither in the farm road about getting closer to the barnyard. They’re enormous. It’s amazing.

This week is not just the first chicken processing day, it’s also that my sister and my friend bought a house and I’m eager to help them move. And also Dude needs to wear a mask around me for five more days and I was so lonely I was becoming deranged, and I need to be here. (Your picture was not posted)